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Hobo Lobo of Hamelin
A beautifully crafted children's book for the digital age
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Notes from DFW
Images of the notes and stories found in David Foster Wallace's personal archives
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Making Field Notes
Great, short documentary about the printing and binding of the pocket notebooks
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HTML-based ebooks
The Baker Framework looks to provide a simple way to package ebooks for iPad reading
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McLuhan going digital
Excited to hear Scott Boms will be helping publish the first official digital editions of Marshall McLuhan’s work
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Atwood in the Twittersphere
Margaret Atwood talks about her introduction to, and subsequent love of, Twitter in a way only she can
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Books in the iPad age
The emergence of the iPad suggests new guidelines about what should actually be printed in book form
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Publishing's revolutionary future
Jason Epstein's essay on the future of books is one of the most informed you'll read
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Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
The original hipster, as captured in a 1965 NFB documentary
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Infinite Summer
Or, A Sublimely Fun Read I'll Likely Do Again
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Oprah likes Niedzviecki
Toronto writer (and former zine-maker and neighbour) Hal Niedzviecki has his The Peep Diaries made as one of Oprah's book picks
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The Cranky Copyright Book
Joe Clark's new book will focus his singular attention on the foibles of the current copyright debate
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Five Simple Steps released
One of my most anticipated Web design books has finally been released
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David Foster Wallace in Harper's
Everything the late author wrote for the magazine
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David Foster Wallace dead
The author of Infinite Jest and on of the best novelist of the time apparently committed suicide
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Joe Clark's book on Canadian spelling
It's called "Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English" and I can't wait
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Good Bloomsday to you
Also known as the secret St. Patrick's Day
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Google Maps as a narrative tool
Good, fiction that experiments with the Web's new user experiences.
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Visualizng rhythms of text
Stefanie Posavec has created some stunning work inspired by "On The Road"
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Amazon's Kindle
The new e-reader tremendously improves on other similar offerings, but the interface and display will still disappoint most people.
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The best minds of my generation...
A version of the AP's obituary for Norman Mailer (at The Globe and Mail) mangles the spelling of Allen Ginsberg's name.
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